. Catalogue of rare Florida fruits and flowers for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Cutler Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. JESSAMINE, PASCX), CO., FUK. Retama, or Jerusalem Thorn. (Parkinsonia aculeata.) A highly ornamental evergreen shrub of great beauty. Has extremely curious leaves, a mid-rib eighteen or more inches long, bearing tiny leaflets each side of its entire length. Theleaves|close np at night, hanging down in a graceful manner and giving the plant a beautiful, \ve*'ping appearance. Its beautiful, showy yellow flow
. Catalogue of rare Florida fruits and flowers for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Cutler Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. JESSAMINE, PASCX), CO., FUK. Retama, or Jerusalem Thorn. (Parkinsonia aculeata.) A highly ornamental evergreen shrub of great beauty. Has extremely curious leaves, a mid-rib eighteen or more inches long, bearing tiny leaflets each side of its entire length. Theleaves|close np at night, hanging down in a graceful manner and giving the plant a beautiful, \ve*'ping appearance. Its beautiful, showy yellow flowers are disposed in short, loose, auxiliary racemes. Pei-fei.'tly hardy asfjw North as Beaufort, S. C where it forms a tree twenty-five feet high. When grown as a pot plant it should be well drained. A plant which will attract attention anywhere. Trice of seed 15c. per pkt. Cherokee Bean, or Erythrina Herbacea. A Florida plant having a large, fleshy, carrot-like root which sends up strong shoots bearing bean- tiful leaves and immense racemes of the most intense flrey scarlet flowers; these are followed by brown pods which burst, revealing the bright red "beans,"' and remaining on the i)lant for months. If desired the root can be put in the open ground in the spring, and wintered in a box of dry soil. Price of roots 25c. ea<*h: 8 for 60c. Very large root-s, by express, 40c. each, 3 for $1. Crape Myrtle. (Lagerstrwmin Indica.) What the Lilac is to the North the Crape Myrtle is to the South. It thrives anywhere and everywhere and blooms all summer long. Were it but known what ft irrand plant it is everybody in the North would grow it. Our cut shows the ajipearance of one individual flow- i*r, but we leave it to oiir customers to imagine the ap- pearance of a bush complet<»ly covered with large panicles consisting of scores of such flowers. The petals of the flowers look likecrape, and the pjinicles of bloom are larger if will bloom freelv, and. CRAI'i: .
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